I will put food ready for you.

Honey you must not eat again for four moons.

At first streak of day you must get up, and eat the food I have placed for you.

Then when you hear a bird note you must shake yourself all over, and make a noise like this.' And the old woman makes a ringing noise with her lips.
'That you must do every time you hear a fresh bird note; so too when you hear the people in the camp begin to talk, or even if you hear them laugh or sneeze.

If you do not, then grey will your hair be while you are yet a young woman, dull will your eyes be, and limp your body.' Girls have told me that they got very tired of being away with only the old woman for so long, and were glad enough when she told them they were to move to a new camp, nearer to the big one, which the women had prepared for them.
When they reached this the old woman rubbed off the mud with which she had plastered the girl's limbs when first they went away to camp, and which she had renewed from time to time.